By JOHNSON EBIGIDE Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, has commended the leadership of the state Information Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) for organising a press week in the state. Mr. Aniagwu stated this during the grand finale of the press week at the Labour House in Asaba, the state…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has congratulated the Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, on his conferment with the Lawmaker-Of-The-Year Award at the Independent Nigerian Parliamentary Excellence Awards. The award, which was organised by the Daily Independent Newspapers Limited in association with African Consolidated Analytical Limited (ACAL), was presented to Oborevwori on…
The Delta Government on Tuesday, dismissed the allegation that it was proliferating the state with universities but failed to pay salaries of staff of its pioneer university in Abraka. The Commissioner for Higher Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare, dispelled the allegation while speaking to newsmen at the end of the state’s Executive Council meeting at Government…
By Johnson Ebigide The Kenneth Obieh-led state Information Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Delta State has concluded plans to organise a two day press week with a view to stepping up healthy living among members of the chapel. A statement from the chapel, signed by the Chairman and the Secretary, comrades…
Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Tuesday, urged government at all levels to work hard to reduce unemployment and check rising insecurity in Nigeria. Okowa made the call when he received participants of Course 44 of Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, at Government House, Asaba. He said that the theme of this…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, has bagged the ‘Best Governor of the year’ award on Peace and Conflict Resolution in the recently concluded 2021 National Peace Awards. The award which was bestowed on the governor at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, was in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in promotion of peace, conflict resolution and…
BY PATRICK MGBODO Attempts by the opposition, especially All Progressives Congress (APC), to paint stories at variance with the reality will not distract us from realizing our mandate, Delta State Government has said. Addressing newsmen in Asaba, the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, said that the misplaced desires to win elections at all cost…
Eunice Emeyazia/ Donald Monu In keeping with the stronger delta agenda of the Governor Okowa administration of building a technology driven economy, Technical and Vocational Education is a sine-qua-non to the realisation of this agenda. This was the thrust of the message by the Commissioner for Technical Education, Hon. Princess Shola Daibo, when she monitored…
Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Sunday, said it would be counter-productive to leave education and training of children to government and parents alone. Okowa stated this in his remarks at the 65th birth anniversary thanksgiving of Sir Chika Chiejina and the re-dedication of UbaChika Education and Scholarship Foundation held at St. Peter’s Anglican…
By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh EROMEDOGHENE EZEKIEL (2016/2017 CYCLE)LGA: ISOKO NORTHENTERPRISE: FISH PRODUCTION That the Delta State Government’s job creation programme has taken thousands of Deltan youths off the streets by training and establishing them in vocational and agricultural enterprises of their choice is stating the obvious. Testimonies abound of their business successes across the state. One…